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Conservative radio hosts gets waterboarded, lasts 6 seconds

Chicago's conservative radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller decided he'd get himself water boarded to prove the technique wasn't torture. Turns out, he was wrong.



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Come on Hannity you pussy... show us what a real bad ass you are and fulfill your promise!




Hey Sean Hannity? Put Up Or Shut The Fuck Up!

F*x News Boycott » Janeane Garafalo Handles F*x News Ambush

Coming out of Starbucks, minding her own business, Janeane Garafalo was ambushed with with questions about her comments regarding the Tea Party protesters being “racist rednecks.” She handled herself well and turned the table by pointing out some of the offensive signs and asking, several times, “Why were they not protesting for the last 8 yrs?"

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Jesse Ventura Lays Waste To F*x And Friends (VIDEO)

The Morning Morons get a taste of truth

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Jesse Ventura Lays Waste To F*x And Friends (VIDEO)

The Morning Morons get a taste of truth

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Gonzales approved torture months before 'torture memos'

Months before the first “torture memo” was issued by Bush administration lawyers in early 2002, Alberto Gonzales – then White House counsel – personally approved “borderline torture” techniques used on Abu Zubaydah, according to a new report from National Public Radio.

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Lawrence Wilkerson Drops an Iraq-Torture Bombshell

the administration authorized harsh interrogation in April and May of 2002 -- well before the Justice Department had rendered any legal opinion -- its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at pre-empting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al-Qa'ida.

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Ron Paul: Thought New Admin WE WOULD BE FIGHTING LESS WARS!

May 14, 2009Ron Paul HR2346

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Scathing New Report on the Fed - Den of Thieves

In reality inflation and its ability to literally steal money from people is such an overtly obvious process that your mind actually doesn’t want to believe it once the truth becomes evident. But at that moment when you do understand just what is being done to you, you’ll be pretty pissed off. I was. Read this scathing report Den of Thieves...

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Books: The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook

A real-life adventure filled with unimaginable wealth, sex, exotic locales, six-foot-five identical-twin Olympic rowers, and betrayal-makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. The great irony is that Facebook succeeded by bringing people together-while at the same time, it tore two best friends apart.

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Cheney Stopped CIA Watchdog From Completing Torture Probe

Dick Cheney stopped CIA Inspector General John Helgerson from completing an investigation into the agency’s use of torture against detainees, but the watchdog was still able to prepare a report that implicated CIA interrogators in three detainee deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq and referred eight criminal cases to the Justice Dept. for investigation.

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Senate refuses to cap credit card interest rates at 15%

Never mind that credit union interest rates are capped at 15 percent already. The effort by Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, drew only 33 votes and needed 60. One-third of all credit card holders are paying interest above 20 percent and as high as 41 percent, but the banks own the Senate.

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Books: The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook

A real-life adventure filled with unimaginable wealth, sex, exotic locales, six-foot-five identical-twin Olympic rowers, and betrayal-makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. The great irony is that Facebook succeeded by bringing people together-while at the same time, it tore two best friends apart.

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Bank of America Screws Taxpayers Coming and Going

Bank of America told ABC News they could not comment on an individual's account. As far as rates go, the bank said, "Any hikes reflect the current economic conditions. Our costs of providing credit have significantly increased." fta: Liar, liar, pants on fire. Too bad ABC News didn't take a look at the 10-Q.

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Obama’s Rich Donors Threaten over Closing Foreign Tax Havens

Offshore Banking Business: - A top Obama fundraiser and hedge fund manager said: "I'm appalled at the anti-Wall Street rhetoric. It was OK on the campaign but now it's the real world. I'm surprised that Obama is turning out to be so left-wing. He's a real class warrior."

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Cops Trick Suspect w/Fake Lie Detector Test: Is This Legal?

The police placed on body patches connected to wires, pretended to administer a lie detector test, fabricated written test results, showed defendant the fake results, and told him the results showed he failed the test. But is this legal?

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FBI Investigating Coleman In Minnesota

The FBI is investigating allegations that former Senator Norm Coleman had clothing and other items purchased on his behalf by a longtime friend and businessman Nasser Kazeminy.The FBI has also been conducting interviews in regards to different allegations that Kazeminy tried to steer $75,000 to Coleman through his wife's employer.

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Song of Survival aka Paradise Road

Paradise Road Owes Its Story—and Music—to People Like Helen Colijn. ON A WARM INDONESIAN EVENING in 1943, a young Dutch woman named Helen Colijn headed out the door to hear some music. This was to be no ordinary concert; the setting was a Japanese prison camp in the middle of the Sumatran jungle.

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Spacey to star in 'Casino Jack' portraying Jack Abramoff

Kevin Spacey is slipping into the shoes of disgraced Washington power broker Jack Abramoff. Film, formerly titled "Bagman," stars Spacey as the once high-powered lobbyist whose bribery schemes and fraudulent dealings with Indian casinos ultimately landed him in prison.

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*’Reilly uses Nazi propaganda to defend torture, attack President Obama

Keith Olbermann dismantles Bill *’Reilly’s use of false claims from a Nazi war criminal to accuse President Obama of lying about Winston Churchill’s position on torture:

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Interrogator: New Obama War Chief OK w/ Torture

Oops? Obama picked general Stanley McChrystal to run the Afghan war on Monday night, but do these revelations, divulged by an elite Army interrogator in 2006, imply the new commander's aiding and abetting of torture? Doesn't Obama do his homework on this stuff? Pretty scary allegations....

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Obama Cuts Abstinence-Only Funding

Wingnuts a splode!

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Spinning the Death of a 12 Year Old - Journalism Fail

As we saw last week with CNN’s speedy parroting of the DOD spin on the bombings in Afghanistan by US forces which killed a large number of civilians, the traditional media is mighty fast to buy whatever line the Pentagon is spinning. The latest such incident goes a step further – and not just the MSM are playing along – HuffPo jumped on board too.

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Hey Sean Hannity? Put Up Or Shut The Fuck Up!

Come on Hannity... show us what a real bad ass you are and fulfill your promise!

WE WON'T FORGET!



Otherwise... STFU!

Obama Rocks the White House Correspondent's Dinner

ZINGERS!

Slum Dog Action Figures?

Washington Post: "Some in the Indian media have called the movie "a poverty tour" that turns a profit by using India's slums as its cinematic backdrop." LIFP "Why stop there... there's millions to be made with the 'Kid that wants an autograph doll with life like sh*t smell'..." from a completely political satire POV one can only imagine the...

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Short Film Contest: Triggerstreet, Stella Artois Shorts

Triggerstreet.com is partnering with Stella Artois for a $50K short film contest. The deadline is 11:59:00 pm EST on June 15, 2009.

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International Buy Indie Day Has Commenced

Bucking against lagging bookstore sales and the publishing recession, a network of independent booksellers have declared today International Buy Indie Day. The directions are simple: "May 1st has been declared Buy Indie Day. The idea: buy one book--paperback, hardcover, audiobook, whatever you want!--at an independent bookstore near you."

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F*x manipulates Obama video to produce false quote

During the April 24 edition of F*x News' Special Report, White House correspondent Wendell Goler cropped a comment by President Obama and took it out of context -- effectively reversing the statement's meaning -- to falsely suggest that Obama supports creating a health care system "like the European countries."

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Strange anti-Obama video removed from RNC YouTube channel

Here’s a very weird video that was briefly posted on the Republican Party’s YouTube channel before being removed.I managed to make a screen capture of the RNC’s YouTube channel showing the video as their channel icon. Watching that video gives you a sense of just how much these guys must hate the president. Truly, scenes from a freakshow.

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U.S. Soldier Killed Herself -- After Refusing Torture Duty

Peterson, 27, a Flagstaff, Ariz., native, served with C Company, 311th Military Intelligence BN, 101st Airborne. Peterson was an Arabic-speaking interrogator assigned to the prison at our air base in troubled Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq. According to official records, she died on Sept. 15, 2003, from a "non-hostile weapons discharge."

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Ex President Bush in 2003: Prosecute me for torture.

In a June 26, 2003 statement in support of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, President Bush called "on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture."

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Don't forget your rubber ducky you fucking idiot

Hannity do us all a favor! Please refuse to talk! KO!

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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Idiot Congressman Thinks He Stumped Nobel Winning Scientist

Oh the (rare, but occasionally exceptional) joys of Twitter. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)--the ranking member on the House Energy & Commerce Committee--says (tweets?) "I seemed [sic] to have baffled the Energy Sec with basic question - Where does oil come from?"

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Special Forces officer schools O’Reilly in debate on torture

Bill O’Reilly was desperately in search of a good argument for torture, but thanks to Cato Institute legal analyst David Rittgers — a former Army Captain — he came up empty.

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Racist Roots of Glenn Beck and his Gaggle of thugs

Beck, O'Reilly and Hannity share more than a philosohpical kindred with the nativists and David Duke types. Many of their speaking points come directly from the extreme right: Peter Brimelow supports a stable of wingnuts, such as Steve Sailer, Pat Buchanan and Michelle Malkin. His website VDare is a veritable smorgasbord of right wing hate...

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Sites can block the DiggBar, but is it worth it?

John Gruber of the blog Daring Fireball doesn't like what Digg's doing with its DiggBar, and has come up with a relatively simple way to block it on his own site.

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Mr & Mrs Twitter

Mr & Mrs Twitter. @mrskutcher and @aplusk on location with Director @robluketic. Eden Roc, Cap d' Antibes for the film Five Killers (2010)

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Schumer: DOJ Must Probe, 'Prosecute' Bush Aides for Torture

Sen. Chuck Schumer, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday it's time for the DOJ to launch a criminal investigation into the Bush administration's torture policies and if there are egregious violations of law they should be prosecuted.”

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re: Baracknophobia: To Hannity, Bachmann, And Beck

"You're in the minority... It' supposed to taste like a shit taco"

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	M - Th 11p / 10c
Baracknophobia - Obey
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Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor

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Are Facebook And Digg Hijacking Websites' Content, Traffic?

Toolbars like HootSuite, Krumlr, and the DiggBar initially sound like a great ideas in that they enable visitors to easily share your content. However, what most people fail to realize is that it is essentially framing your website and thereby hijacking it and it’s traffic.

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FUCK the Bailouts!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional budget analysts have raised their estimate of the net cost to taxpayers for the government's financial rescue program to $356 billion, an increase of $167 billion from earlier estimates.

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Fascinating 100 meter long image

Take a look at fabulous 100 meter long image. 100m x78cm image. Very amazing concept.

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First Ever Movie of Individual Carbon Atoms in Action

(PhysOrg.com) -- Science fiction fans still have another two months of waiting for the new Star Trek movie, but fans of actual science can feast their eyes now on the first movie ever of carbon atoms moving along the edge of a graphene crystal.

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Dems Investigating Bush Administration Role In AIG Collapse

In November 2004, the Bush Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission agreed not to prosecute AIG for allegedly helping companies fudge their books. In exchange, AIG agreed to host a government-appointed auditor in company meetings. At the time, Greenberg said it brought "finality to the claims raised by the SEC and the Departmen

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Twitter in real life

follow me! No follow me!

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Stephen Colbert Pwns Glenn Beck

-- Creates the 10/31 Project to counter Beck's 9/12 thing. Stephen wants you to ring doorbells and demand that your neighbors make a tangible commitment to America in the form of a sugary treat.

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TriggerStreet TV Episode 55 - Entertainment Industry News

Film Production and Industry News: Studios set blind dates, MGM gets their Stooges, Aliens and Monsters take the top spot, L.A tries to entice with "incentives" Valebrity: Validating Social Celebrities

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F*x deceptively cuts out 15 seconds from ad critical of Rove

Here’s video of F*x’s Chris Wallace and Karl Rove playing what they claimed to be a DNC ad criticizing Rove, along with the actual, unedited ad from the DNC

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DOJ Now 'Revising' Report Critical of John Yoo's Legal Work

A Justice Department watchdog report that is said to be highly critical of the legal work conducted for the Bush administration by three attorneys who worked at the agency’s powerful Office of Legal Counsel is in the process of being revised after the agency received responses on the report's conclusions from the attorneys under scrutiny.

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